unit8_掷铁饼者.ppt

1、Richard Selzer,The Discus Thrower,About the Author, Richard Selzer 1928: born in Troy, New York 1948: graduated from Union college,Surgeon,Writer,As a Surgeon, 1953: received M.D from Albany Medical College 1960: completed a surgical internship and residency at Yale University Until 1985: remained a

2、s Assistant Clinical Professor of Surgery,back,As a Writer, 1973: Rituals of Surgery ( first collection of short stories) 1976: Mortal Lessons: Notes on the Art of Surgery 1979: Confessions of a Knife ( a collection of 24 essays, roughly half of which are surgical memories) 1982: Letters to a Young

3、Doctor 1986: Taking the World in for Repairs 1990: Imagine a Woman 1990: A Mile and a Half of Ink (a diary),Awards, National Magazine Award American Medical Writers Award Guggenheim Fellowship His articles have appeared in many magazines,About his Writing, In 1991, he contracted Legionnaires disease

4、 but went on to document his recovery in Raising the Dead: A Doctors Encounter with His Own Mortality In his writing, he draws upon his experience as a surgeon, and as one critic points out, he “force physicians to think about the morality of medicine.”,This text is a piece of narration. The narrato

5、r, as a doctor, had a unique habit of “spying on” his patients for the sake of better medical treatment. He met with a particular patient who is blind and has amputations（截肢） of both legs. Though the patient is legless, he requires a pair of shoes everyday. He refuses his food and has a strange habi

6、t of throwing his china plate against the wall of his room. This caused a conflict between the man and the head nurse. Finally the patient died, and the doctor discovered that the man starved himself to death when he paid attention to the repeatedly washed place where the scrambled eggs dropped to t

7、he floor.,About the Text,What to think of this man, how to understand him, and how to treat him?,Words And Expressions,Stance noun,1、the opinions that sb has about sth and expresses publicly e.g. What is the newspapers stance on the war? 2、the way in which sb stands, especially when playing a sport,

8、Repose,Noun U a state of rest, sleep or feeling calm e.g. 1、She went outside seeking a few moments of repose. 2、In repose, his face was sad. Verb 1、（of an object）to be or be kept in a particular place 2、（of a person）to lie or rest in a particular place,Bonsai,Noun (pl. bonsai) C a small tree that is

9、 grown in a pot and prevented from reaching its normal size Uthe Japanese art of growing bonsai,Facsimile noun,C an exact copy of sth a facsimile edition 摹本版 C,U (formal) =FAX : a facsimile machine,Cache noun,a hidden store of things such as weapons an arms weapons (隐藏的武器),Kickshaw noun,a fancy but

10、insubstantial cooked dish, especially one of foreign origin e.g. Many restaurants put out pictures of their kickshaw to attract customers.,Stump noun secretive e.g. He stole a furtive glance at her. suggestive of guilty nervousness the look in his eyes became furtive Derivatives furtively adverb fur

11、tiveness noun,Close-cropped adj.,(of hair or grass) cut very short,Vile adj.,(informal) extremely unpleasant e.g. he was in a vile mood. (formal) wicked, completely unacceptable e.g. the vile practice of taking hostages 扣押人质的卑劣行径 Derivatives vilely adv. Vileness n.,Snowbound adj.,prevented from trav

12、elling or going out by snow or snowy weather e.g. he was snowbound in the nearby mountains covered in snow or inaccessible because of it a snowbound Alpine village,Inert adj.,lacking the ability or strength to move e.g. she lay inert in her bed. lacking vigour an inert political system Derivatives i

13、nertly adv. Inertness n.,Deceased,Adj.: recently dead the deceased mans family (the deceased) noun a person who has died, especially recently,Dignified adj.,having or showing a composed or serious manner that is worthy of respect e.g. she maintained a dignified silence. a dignified old lady Derivati

14、ves dignifiedly adv.,Awkwardly adv.,Not smoothly or gracefully, ungainly e.g. “Im sorry,” he said awkwardly. she fell awkwardly and broke her ankle. Derivatives awkward adj. awkwardness n.,Athwart,preposition 1 from side to side of; across a counter was placed athwart the entrance 2 in opposition to

15、; counter to these statistics run sharply athwart conventional presumptions adverb 1 across from side to side; transversely one table running athwart was all the room would hold 2 so as to be perverse or contradictory our words ran athwart and we ended up at cross purposes,The image of the old man g

16、ives readers a strong contrast. On one hand, the old man is seriously ill: blind and legless. According to the common sense, he is supposed to be weak, pitiful and hopeless. However, His abnormal behaviors of asking for shoes and throwing his plate of eggs at a wall every day give us an impression o

17、f a tough guy. Rather, though blind, he can throw the plate at the same place in his ward. And from the description of his throwing activity we know that he seems to be trained and still has physical power. He never cries, never tears and is never feat by destiny. He wants dignity, psychologically r

18、efuses to accept the fact and denies he is a useless person. Such a calm, stubborn person with strong self-esteem shows the readers life vitality(生命力，活力） against personal misfortune.,Theme,This story makes people reflect on life and death. The patient in the novel tends to despise and deny the coming d